Ripple Gains BitLicense in New York
Ripple Labs Inc., has had its BitLicense application approved today by New York state’s financial regulator. The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved Ripple Labs’ BitLicense application. Granted today, the approval will grant Ripple the license to sell and obtain XRP – the native digital asset of the Ripple Consensus Ledger, a platform used by financial institutions including banks as well as companies. Designed to improve currency liquidity while lowering the significant capital costs of cross-border payments, XRP enables banks to use one XRP account held....
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